Natural-Selection 3.2 - ns_machina preview

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Jon "Merkaba" Chapman has been our resident team mapper on NS since way before v1.0. Not only does Jon have a fantastic visual and layout sense for mapping, but he understands the technical intricacies of VIS, BSP, clip nodes, etc. and is also growing quickly as a 2D and 3D artist. Jon created and maintained ns_hera and between all the major revisions of it, it probably counts as three maps by now!



His new map is called ns_machina and has been in development in various forms for about a year. We've been testing it with the Constellation members Playtesters in NS v3.2 and we're hoping it's going to make the release (which is quickly approaching). I'm not sure how much it has been shown so I thought I'd do a quick level preview here.



One of his interesting design goals for the map has been to make the level feel "alive". You can see some of this reflected in his organic architecture - many curves, arches and liquid elements make you feel almost as if you're roaming among the internal organs of an ancient hulking space beast.



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Thats nice cant wait

I hope you dont get lost as Alien in there :/

The marines got a nice little radar

The aliens too if you hold the botton pressed, but that isnt very helpfull at combat : /

I want now !!! i cant wait

@Jerimis; that totally depends
if you use mouse 3,4,5,6 or 7 (buttons) for map, you still can chew lots of rines while adoring the map

Oh, and the map looks awesome!

i dont know alot of player who can look at the map, kill a marine, hide, heal, attack, etc, and that all at once

ohhh this map loocks nice but its a littel bit to dark,dident it?

too dark? no, its quite optimal at my opninion, its not "dark" at all

Yeah, map should have places where skulks can hide and wait for freesh meal :]

Nice map